Cisco TrustSec vs. IBM X-Force Exchange

• Control access to critical enterprise resources by business role, device type, and location, so policy changes can be made without redesigning the network.
• Easily manage access control and segmentation while maintaining compliance.
• Create and manage policies in an easy-to-use matrix.
• Reduce the need for costly network re-architecture by automating firewall rules and access control list (ACL) administration.

Incentivized

IBM X-Force is well suited for organizations with medium to large SOC's and run IBM Qradar as their SIEM.

Incentivized

• Reduce operational expenses by simplifying network segmentation and defining security groups based on business roles, not IP addresses.
• Limit the impact of a data breach by quickly isolating and containing threats using technology already in your network.

Incentivized

• Ready made security research on threats.
• Security Intel
• Integrate threat intel feeds with SIEMs.

Incentivized

• Help and solutions if needed, support

Incentivized

• Pruning of IOC to reduce false positives.
• Add more flexibility to integration on SIEMs to allow users to compare UserAgents, Compromised users/domains like HIBP.
• Only watch vulnerabilities for selected vendors.

Incentivized

IBM X-force is community-based and crowd strike is not. Community-based will always be best-effort quality.

Incentivized

• Reduction in IT operational costs

Incentivized

• Threat Intel - Low Confidence IOC - Overhead.
• Lack of integration with IBM Qradar+Vulnerability via X-Force.

Incentivized